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jstan
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Nov 21, 2012 - 08:14pm PT
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I looked up the history on Farmall. I can't believe our first Farmall A was only five or six years old when we got it. It looked exactly the same when we sold it 40 years later.
Here it has the row cultivator on it. Before I was full growed I had 130 times the power I have now. Damn! It really has been all downhill.
A D8.
Definitely.
A D8.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Nov 21, 2012 - 09:41pm PT
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Khanom,
I figured that is what you meant. I remember the first kubota I saw. The state of Mississippi bought boat load of them to mow the right of ways with. I had to get out of the car and look at one; maybe 1980 or so.
Here's a strange configuration for a tractor used in South Georgia to haul long leaf pine and cypress out of the bottoms:
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tradmanclimbs
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Pomfert VT
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Nov 22, 2012 - 07:49am PT
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My neighbor Loyde with his home made Doodle Bug. The rear end is a chopped down suburban. The front end and stearing box/ collum out of a toyota. the motor and tranny are a model T Ford. The hydralics run off of a dump truck power steering pump. the man is genius and a damn good neighbor.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Nov 22, 2012 - 02:25pm PT
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wow, great stuff, both the photos and stories. Seems like a lot folks are back home for turkey day, back where there are tractors a plenty.
Been seeing about 100 tractor an hour out here in the land of big agriculture. Yesterday missed getting some shots of real cool ones with these tall (like 8 feet) super thin wheels that they use in rice fields, however when I went to snap a photo there was no photo card in my camera. Left it in the computer.
Did get this monster today, on its way to level a field for sugar cane planting.
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perswig
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Nov 23, 2012 - 07:47pm PT
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Your neighbor's rig is pretty cool, Nick.
Dale
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tradmanclimbs
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Pomfert VT
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Nov 24, 2012 - 09:16am PT
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Thanksgiveing at my sisters farm.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Nov 24, 2012 - 02:09pm PT
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just does not seem right without snow...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 24, 2012 - 07:12pm PT
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My brother's toy out in Merced Falls.
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perswig
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Nov 25, 2012 - 09:42pm PT
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Winery and tractor.
Check.
Weird forklift/bomb disposal unit combo.
Check.
Dale
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perswig
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Quick pic of this workaday rig on the way to T-giving.
Also, just scored this in the sale corner of a local bookstore.
Envy at will.
Dale
(Khanom - sorry; I missed your Irving reference before; I had vague rememberances of reading about a logging tractor, but I was thinking something by Carolyn Chute. Good reminder to go back and re-read some Irving. Thanks!)
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Dec 12, 2012 - 06:35pm PT
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Rock!...oopsie.
Trad climber
the pitch above you
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Dec 14, 2012 - 09:44pm PT
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J Forensic Sci. 1993 Mar;38(2):359-64.
Autoerotic fatalities with power hydraulics.
O'Halloran RL, Dietz PE.
Source
Ventura County Medical Examiner Office, CA.
Abstract
We report two cases in which men used the hydraulic shovels on tractors to suspend themselves for masochistic sexual stimulation. One man developed a romantic attachment to a tractor, even giving it a name and writing poetry in its honor. He died accidentally while intentionally asphyxiating himself through suspension by the neck, leaving clues that he enjoyed perceptual distortions during asphyxiation. The other man engaged in sexual bondage and transvestic fetishism, but did not purposely asphyxiate himself. He died when accidentally pinned to the ground under a shovel after intentionally suspending himself by the ankles. We compare these cases with other autoerotic fatalities involving perceptual distortion, cross-dressing, machinery, and postural asphyxiation by chest compression.
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perswig
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Dec 15, 2012 - 07:57pm PT
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That was awesome, Skully!
Dale
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Captain...or Skully
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Dec 16, 2012 - 08:54am PT
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Some of those Russians are a never say die bunch, huh?
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The rock doesn't care what I think
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Dec 16, 2012 - 02:37pm PT
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That is tenacity, Skully!
Here's another where a helping hand from a gentle giant was needed:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Eric
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